In what is the largest new menu rollout in its 75-year history, the Dairy Queen system, a Berkshire Hathaway company, today announced the roll-out of the new DQ Bakes! menu with nine innovative products across three categories: Hot Desserts à la Mode, Artisan-style Sandwiches, and Snack Melts. The...

Like other trends that embrace certain extremes and require more than a touch of sacrifice on the part of followers, the raw food movement’s appeal has been—up to this point, anyway—fairly limited.
It is unknown exactly how many Americans today completely eschew cooked foods and stick to a diet...

Neither of us came from a background of restaurateurs. Starting out, we were simply a couple of college students in the same fraternity at the University of Florida who liked to eat food. Both of us were in business-focused majors, and we took a look at the quick-serve market in our college area...

Many of the themes at the Menus of Change conference have been obvious issues for the restaurant industry, including antibiotic-treated protein, sustainable agriculture, and more nutritious plates among others.
But on the final day, Friday, presenters broached the important but less obvious topic...

Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen, a fast casual focused on Asian cuisine and wok’d-to-order dishes, is broadening its focus to help the thousands affected by the damaging storms Mother Nature has been doling out over the last two weeks.
Relentless rainfall in southern Texas has bested levies and left many...

Let’s talk money.
First, the good news: There is plenty of money available for foodservice operators and brands looking to grow or strengthen their concepts. Stakeholders from across the restaurant financial services spectrum agree on that. U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) financing is at a...

For many years, Europe has had stronger protection against credit card fraud than the U.S. But now that technology is making its way stateside.
Scores of retailers, including quick-serve operators, will begin using EMV chip card technology to more effectively combat the pervasive and costly problem...

At Menus of Change, chefs, C-suite execs, nutritionists, and health policy experts alike preached a mission to imbue the foodservice industry with healthier menu options. But as compelling as these appeals were, most begged the simple question of how.
Consumers and operators worried that they would...

Captain D’s, the leading fast-casual seafood restaurant, announced it achieved 5.2 percent same-store sales growth for the second quarter of 2015, marking the company’s 15th consecutive quarter of positive growth. A primary driving force behind the brand’s continued success is its ongoing menu...

We’ve been around a long time; the company was founded in 1969. For much of that time, we were a batter-and-breading house. The fish and chips has been and still is our No. 1 selling item. The grill is probably the...

The All-Natural Burger, which launched at Carl’s Jr. restaurants in December 2014 featuring the first grass-fed, free-range beef with no added hormones, antibiotics, or steroids from a major fast food company, is now available at sister-chain Hardee’s restaurants. Coinciding with the All-Natural...

With the goal of attracting more Millennial guests, Taco John’s is hitting the streets this summer. The Mexican quick-service restaurant chain is deploying street teams to preview parties, music festivals, and even marathons. In return, Taco John’s is seeing increases as high as 42 percent in...

Arby’s introduced today its take on the famous Italian sandwich with a meat-centric masterpiece. The new Loaded Italian Sandwich at Arby’s features thinly sliced ham, salami, and pepperoni with melted cheese, banana peppers, shredded lettuce, tomato, and red onion, with red wine vinaigrette and...

Juice It Up!, one of the nation’s leading raw juice bar and hand-crafted smoothie franchises, is celebrating 20 years of health, juice, and fun, with a summer campaign and seasonal smoothie that pays homage to the Southern California lifestyle, which is where Juice It Up! was founded in 1995....

PizzaRev takes a page out of the Buffalo Wild Wings playbook with the launch of six custom hot sauces. The Buffalo Wild Wings-backed build-your-own pizza shop features the signature sauces at its ‘Rev It Up’ counter where guests can choose from a variety of ingredients, including dry-aged...

As most of the food industry knows, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced an extension to the rule released last year requiring that restaurant chains and retailers provide customers with calorie counts on available food and beverages by December 1, 2015.Now restaurants have an e

The minimum wage is on the mind of most quick-service operators today, especially as many states and cities pass regulations that bump the minimum wage upward.But when Moo Cluck Moo founder Brian Parker and his team first sat down to discuss employee pay, he says, the minimum wage wasn’t even

Q: Should our restaurant offer delivery service?A: These days, everyone seems to be doing delivery, right? Starbucks, Chipotle, McDonald’s, and Taco Bell are some of the big chains that have recently announced tests or rollouts of delivery service.